Written Quotes
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I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.
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I've got a Kanji symbol on my shoulder; it's for my son and means 'strength and power.' I have my son and daughter's names, Dominik and Aalyah, written on the inside of the left and right biceps, too.
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Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.
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Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.
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I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.
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History is not what happened but what is written down
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Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.
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I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.
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Luckily the script of X-files episode was written wonderfully and that became who I was and I was quirky, and I was kind of agitated and not entirely happy, but at the same time, witty.
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The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.
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You're every love song ever written.
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I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.
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I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.
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I love deliberately badly written books.
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Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.
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The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in.... He now knows that the only words worth writing down arise when language is impossible.
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No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.
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But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
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Not to say that authors are all such sourpusses, but you meet the author in the best possible way, on the written page. I am at my best there, more patient, more thoughtful.
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I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.
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History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.
